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CalendarLetters to the Editor  COMMENT Clintonism, R.I.P. How triangulation became strangulation by Chuck Todd FOREIGN AFFAIRS The Widening Atlantic Our growing transatlantic estrangement has less to do with George W. Bush's foreign policy than with deep social changes in Europe by Niall Ferguson CASE HISTORY Presidential Ailments by Nathan Littlefield & Benjamin Healy THE ART OF POLICY Redheaded Eskimo The corporate tax bill—an explanation by P. J. O'Rourke CROSS-EXAMINATION Letting Go of Roe Roe v. Wade has been deeply unhealthy for abortion rights—and for democracy by Benjamin Wittes THE LIST Trivial Pursuits by Michael Slenske THE ODDS Which Harry Potter Character Gets Whacked? by John Sellers Primary Sources How car insurance causes death; the Brits and foreplay; how long could you survive without the Internet? THE WORLD IN NUMBERS A Muslim Europe? [This article is unavailable online.] by Ross Douthat  Ten Years Later "Then the second wave of al-Qaeda attacks hit America." A leading expert on counterterrorism imagines the future history of the war on terror. A frightening picture of a country still at war in 2011 by Richard A. Clarke INTERVIEWS Fatal VisionSuccess Without Victory A "containment" strategy for the age of terror by James Fallows Letter From Baghdad Life in the wilds of a city without trust by William Langewiesche What Amy Would Do Meet Amy Dickinson, agony aunt for the twenty-first century by Sridhar Pappu Lost in the Meritocracy How I traded an education for a ticket to the ruling class by Walter Kirn STATE OF THE UNION One Nation, Divisible by The Editors STATE OF THE UNION Bipolar Disorder A funny thing happened to many of the scholars who went out into the country to investigate the red-blue divide. They couldn't find it by Jonathan Rauch STATE OF THE UNION Shaken and Stirred The United States is about to experience economic upheaval on a scale unseen for generations. Will social harmony be a casualty? by Stephen S. Cohen & J. Bradford DeLong STATE OF THE UNION Beyond Belief The real religious divide in the United States isn't between the churched and the unchurched. It's between different kinds of believers by Hanna Rosin STATE OF THE UNION The Massless Media With the mass media losing their audience to smaller, more targeted outlets, we may be headed for an era of noisy, contentious press reminiscent of the 1800s by William Powers STATE OF THE UNION Continental Divides The Crescent of Crime, the Spousal Spine, the Divorce Coasts, the Righteous Region, and other sources of national greatness by P. J. O'Rourke POETRY A Place for the Bees (from Virgil's Georgics) [with audio] Translated by David Ferry Field Guide A poetry anthology Questions of Replication: The Brittle Star The Cohort Flying SeedPOETRY Retrospective [with audio] by Geri Doran Sports Names in the News by Bruce McCall SHORT STORY A Record Book for Small Farmers Had her father been a coward all these years, his reticence a cover for things he was afraid to say? by Anna North  EDITOR'S CHOICE An Exquisite Slogger V. S. Pritchett, by Jeremy Treglown; Born Losers, by Scott A. Sandage; War in the Wild East, by Ben Shepherd by Benjamin Schwarz The Murdoch Touch If Rupert's so bad, why is Fox so good? by Tom Carson Darling Me Christopher Isherwood followed Oscar Wilde's prescription for lifelong romance by falling in love with himself—over and over again by Thomas Mallon A Nice Bloody Fool Beneath the surface the vaguely preposterous Stephen Spender had a pith of seriousness and principle by Christopher Hitchens READING LIST Easier Said Than Done Five novels by critics who learned their lesson by David Kipen Chameleon With a Toupee Bobby Darin was so determined to be somebody that he tried to be everybody by David Hajdu A CLOSE READ Villages, by John Updike Appraising the substance of style by Christina Schwarz  INNOCENT BYSTANDER People to People Some say that liberals and conservatives need to build bridges of understanding. Drawbridges might be better by Cullen Murphy A LOOK BACK 45 Years Ago in The Atlantic "The Job of the Washington Correspondent" MUSIC X Jazz The pianist Matthew Shipp is the star of the latter-day free-jazz scene—the only scene in jazz right now with younger faces in the audience by Francis Davis TRAVELS Russia's Holy Warriors Fervently Orthodox, anti-Islamic, and proudly militaristic, the Cossacks are on the rise in Vladimir Putin's new Russia by Jeffrey Tayler THE PUZZLER What's What by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff POST MORTEM Broadway's Last Good Time Cy Coleman (1929-2004) by Mark Steyn Who's Who A selective index to this month's issue Compiled by Benjamin Healy |
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